First seen at MWC in Spain, the borderless Ulefone future is now listed on sale for $269.99. What do you think of this pricing for the specs.
We got our hands on with the Ulefone Future at MWC this year to see what the borderless phone would be like once launched. The prototypes deviated from the final specs a little, but they did show us the all metal body and borderless screen design Ulefone had promised, but the design generated a lot of ‘love’ ‘hate’comments.
Since MWC Ulefone have been working to get the build quality up to scratch and get the phone to a state of mass production meaning resellers sites have started to list the phone for sale.
Originally we were under the impression the Future would cost around $300, but the final price is actually $269.99, still a lot of a Ulefone, but affordable for a borderless screen phone.
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Specs for the final version include 4GB RAM, 32GB internal memory, a 1.95Ghz Mediatek MT6755 chipset, Android 6.0, 3000mAh battery, 5.5-inch FHD display, 16 mega-pixel rear camera and 5 mega-pixel front. The unibody phone will also feature a dual SIM slot that can also accept a Micro SD card.
Like all flagship phones these days, a fingerprint scanner is also included, but in a side mounted location. Final touches are a Type C USB, and 1 hour fast charging. Full details over on the Ulefone website here.
What do you think of the latest from Ulefone? Worth the money?
P10 Ulefone for $270 (re-sellers will want more) – no thanks. They’re not ready to sell expensive phones yet and for the price they would need to compete with way better phones from way more reliable brands.
Seems you never buy cross-boder. The price will be down, every soon and very steep as Chinese phone makers have always done.
Lol @ the price for a P10 phone. He He. Shouldn’t have been more than 175.99 honestly.
If you think 3GB RAM with 4GB RAM is the same performance.There are no border of the screen followed by a screen frame is the same.
Between 3 and 4 gb is not much difference, you won’t notice it in real life, just in useless benchmarks.
Re-sellers already have it at $269 so no big markup.
The phone looks interesting but I would be worried about their quality control. There are some reports of phones having problems after a few days or weeks and the post-sales assistance is non-existent.
Apparently they work with Elephone and this phone is very similar to the P9000 edge.
They only markup known brands – Xiaomi, Meizu, Oppo…
Ulephone, Elephone, Umi and Doogee give them commission on every unit sold.
What he means is the smaller brands provide stock to resellers for a fixed international shipping price in return. i.e, the seller doesn’t mark up the $270 price,but in that price it includes his commission,so is not a loss. This is different from the seller acquisition of Xiaomi units (not from Xiaomi themselves) then compensating that loss with a markup.
Of Ulefone, Elephone, and UMI, Ulefone’s quality control is the best. My wife has Ulefone Paris and i have the Power, two consecutive phones. Both are very good. My wife got 3 updates so far and before that Ulefone had already released 3, so there are totally 6. That’s amazing for small brands. My Power has got 2 updates and soon i can upgrade it to the Marshmallow. I think Ulefone really care about their users. About UMI and Elephone, i never bought because the negative comments online has scared me off.
I hope that you are right. But the fact is that we are overly swayed by our own experiences with one or two phones when often we have just been lucky (or unlucky if there have been problems). Having said that, the comments on Ulefone are generally positive with the exception of after-sales service in Europe, but poor service is the case for the majority of china phone producers.